A merica favisk Periodical eater
October 4, 1946
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
L E SHONO TOVO TIKOSEVU
Jensen 'Belting 8 Supply
Company
4708
HASTINGS
COlumbia 5440
ST.
Smith's Garage
2723 JOY ROAD
TYLER 4-9295
COMPLETE AUTO REPAIRS
Towing Anywhere Collision Work
WILEY SMITH. Prop.
Season's Greetings and Best Wishes
G. H. Gross 8 Son's
Market
TWO DELIVERIES DAILY:
10 A. M. and 2 P. M.
ROBSON and GRAND RIVER
Phone VE. 5-7256
Season's Greetings and Best Wishes
Park Print Shop
MARIA S MASAK
602 Marquette Bldg.
RA. 5452
Happy New Year to All!
Hawthorne
Metal Products
Company
TOwnsend 8-5761
18350 Hawthorne
Season's Greetings and Best Wishes
ANDORIA HOTEL
A Little
Hotel and Tea Room
"Mid the Throb of the
World's Big Things"
One Block from Fisher and
General Motors Bldgs.
MAdison 8700
Season's Greetings and Best Wishes
MILLER'S
SUPER SERVICE
Complete Lubrication
Motor Tune-Up Service
Tire and Battery Service
Vacuum Cleaning
2nd BLVD. at PHILADELPHIA
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Season's Greetings and Best Wishes
WAYNE
Patrol and
Detective Service
reit)
Shadowing - Investigations
DOMESTIC and COMMERCIAL
Missing Persons Located
Uniformed Police and Guards
A Strictly Confidential Service at
Reasonable Rates
Will Call at Your Home or Office
DAY OR NIGHT
TRinity 2-7665
9105 Hamilton at Clairmount
LICENSED - BONDED
ON DISCOVERING OUR SOULS
RANDOM HOU SE TO PUBLISH
OR HALL"
"PAST
Jewish Women Challenged to Honor Their
Heritage and to Observe the Sabbath
James Roosevelt's first motion
picture presentation, "Pastor
Hall," a stirring anti-Nazi play
by the late Ernst Toiler, will be
published immediately by Ran-
dom House, 20 E. 5th St., New
ork, in a translation by Stephen
Spender. The volume will also in-
clude "Blind Man's Bluff," an-
other play completed by the un-
fortunate Toiler just before his
death.
By MRS. JOSHUA S. SPERKA
Happy New Year to All
6520 THIRD
CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO
During the course of the last
summer I had occasion,. to visit
several small Michigan commu-
nities. In each of these there re-
sided between 100 and 500 fam-
ilies. Each of these had a syna-
gogue. I watched the daily lives
of the Jewish women as they pur-
sued their separate ways—their
household tasks, marketing, cook-
ing, eating, cleaning and perhaps
a bridge club on an afternoon to
relieve the sameness of the days
that followed one another. When
I visited on Fridays they were
somewhat more occupied because
the cooking was more involved.
And then came Saturday — and
they repeated the same routine
that had gone before—the same
cycle of eating, and cleaning and
perhaps a little bridge playing
in the afternoon. I went to their
synagogues and I found there
three or perhaps four of the
older generation of Jewish wo-
men. The young matrons and
mothers were hardly aware that
it was the Sabbath or that there
was a synagogue in their city.
I came home to Detroit and I
took courage because I felt that
here, in a community so much
larger, there will be the aware-
ness of the significance of the
Sabbath among a greater num-
ber. And I observed Jewish
homes, and how my heart sank to
see fresh washing on clothes lines
in Jewish backyards, coal being
delivered and shovelled into Jew-
ish basements, the doors of Jew-
ish homes opening and Jewish
matrons emerging—but not to go
to their synagogues, there to
commune with themselves as
Jewesses or with their God. They
walked to nearest bus line for a
shopping trip downtown. I walked
to the synagogue with a heavy
heart.
Saturday afternoon bridge
clubs are most popular, for, as
one woman explained, "One
doesn't have to rush home to get
dinner so early". The children
were all hustled off to the near-
est movie theater, they did not
join in companionship with their
mother nor their mother with
them.
And I sat down to ponder.
Here was a generation of Jewish
women, heirs to a tradition of
womanhood immortalized in liter-
ature for her fear of God and
devotion to the faith of her
fathers as the "Aishith Chayil"
and the "Princess Sabbath". And
anyone who walked past a Jewish
front porch as I did and watched
this saintly Jewess' daughter or
granddaughter spending her Sab-
bath afternoon card playing and
smoking cigarettes could not help
but feel that here a glorious heri-
tage had certainly been sold out
for a miserable mess of pottage.
Jewish women consider them-
selves devoted mothers. Who
would deny that they are most
careful in the planning of their
children's diet, in the prepara-
tion of their children's wardrobes;
in their concern when the chil-
dren do not eat. Does it ever
occur to these mothers that a
soul is more vital than spinach,
and a rich life than adequate
vitamins or a new school dress?
Generations have survived with-
out Cod Liver Oil but never
without God.
The secular New Year is the
time for new resolution. Our
Rosh Hashonah is the time for
sacred resolve. Is it not time that
the American Jewess awoke to
her responsibilities and resolve to
fulfill them? Would it not have a
far greater value if on the Sab-
bath morning instead of taking
the bus downtown, each week she
take her boys and girls and to-
gether go to the synagogue and
pray. or at least think and listen
to the voices within and with-
out? and thinking realize that
"Man cannot live by bread
alone."
The American way of life
which has given to our Jewish
women for tho most part a high-
er material level on which to
fashion her life has also placed
unon her greater spiritual respon-
sibilities. Because of her hus-
band's economic preoccupation
the education and training of the
children rests with her. Let then,
each responsible Jewish woman
resolve within her soul that on
this New Year coming to us when
Jewish mothers in so many lands
are bereft of the must elemen-
tary needs for human existence,
she the most fortunate of all the
family of Israel will fulfill her
obligations to her people and her
God. Her children when they
grow to maturity will bless her
for her vision and devotion, for
the richness of their lives and
the beauty within their souls.
They will remember these, the
gifts of their mother long after
they have forgotten the clothes
she bought them. And they will
be fortified against difficult times
with strength that only religious
faith can give. The community
will long be her debtor for the
time has come when all Jews
must give account to their God
and their fellow men, and those
Jews who have forgotten or never
knew their religion will be heavi-
ly burdened in their way through
life. Jewish women must awake
to their responsibilities.
Rosh Hashonah Greetings
Season's Greetings and Best Wishes
Steen Industries
Small Dies, Experimental and
Development Work
Machine and• Tool
320 BEAUBIEN ST.
CH. 9096
WE THANK YOU!
We appreciate the patronage of
our Jewish clientele and extend
sincere wishes to them — each
and everyone for a Happy
and Prosperous New Year.
Everett Bennett
PLUMBING and HEATING
CONTRACTOR
1125 Southfield St.. Lincoln Park
ATiantic 1202
FAULTLESS
Curtain Laundry and Cleaners
HOGARTH 1010
4737 ELMHURST
Michigan's Largest Exclusive Curtain Cleaners
Happy New Year to All!
CARNELL
REALTY CO.
New Year's Greetings and Best Wishes to All
•
13342 West McNichols
UN. 1-8910
Happy New Year to All!
FRANK G.
MILES, Inc.
FORD
Sales and Servi;e
4400 CASS AVE.
TE. 1-3673
Happy New Year to All!
George Bernhardt's
Restaurant
GOOD COFFEE AND MEALS
Dinners - Sandwiches - Steaks
Chops - BEER
2508 GRAND RIVER
3rd at Henry
PROVIDENT
UNION AGENCY
WILLIAM HORDES, President
MEYER KAUFFMAN, Vice-President
IRVING HERMELIN, 'Treasurer
HENRY BURSTON, Secretary
605 FOX THEATRE BLDG.
5701
1940
Rosh Hashonah
Greetings
•
Happy New Year to All!
Harry R. Brethen
MANUFACTURERS'
REPRESENTATIVE
CHERRY 6780
and may the New Year bring you in
abundance, health, happiness and
prosperity—and to your household a
wealth of Good Cheer!
11341 Woodward Ave.
TOwnsend 8-2577
Happy New Year to All!
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